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International Business Times - Deep within a cedar forest in British Columbia, Dan Sutton is building what he hopes will be the most energy-efficient, high-technology greenhouse for growing cannabis. Spurred by the booming market for …

Above The Law - In December of last year, Nebraska and Oklahoma (the “NO States”) filed suit against Colorado in the United States Supreme Court, seeking to invalidate Colorado’s recreational cannabis laws. Last week…

Yahoo News - On Monday morning, the United States Supreme Court asked the Solicitor General’s office for its opinion in a lawsuit involving three states about the commercial sales of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado.
Amon…

The Daily Nebraskan - If you want to talk about marijuana, you need to speak the language. We've laid out some key phrases and questions that come up frequently in the marijuana debate.
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5News - Six Colorado county sheriffs are suing their governor over the state’s recreational marijuana law, and law enforcement officials from Kansas and Nebraska are also fighting the legislation.
Colorado’s recreation…

Live Science - Just like ragweed and birch trees, marijuana plants may trigger allergic reactions in some people, according to a new review of previous studies.
And because of the increasing use and cultivation of marijuana that h…

Washington Times - DENVER — A Colorado hotel franchise and two property owners filed lawsuits Thursday to bring a halt to the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana, citing violations of the federal Racketeer Influ…

Bloomberg - The president said he has directed the Justice Department to look at how the federal government deals with non-violent drug offenders.
President Obama is not going to stand in the way of U.S. states that want to get hi…

Kansas.com - Voters will decide April 7 whether to lessen the penalty for first-time possession of marijuana in Wichita.
The Wichita City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday to put the measure on the ballot after backers presented a petition…

Reason.com - The collapse of pot prohibition divides Republicans and exposes fair-weather federalists.
At the end of last month, seven Republican members of Oklahoma's legislature, including five of the most conservative, publ…

The Gazette - DENVER — Colorado's top law enforcement official promises to vigorously defend the state's historic law legalizing marijuana after Nebraska and Oklahoma asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare it unconstitu…

USA Today - DENVER — Colorado is launching a major campaign to educate residents and tourists alike on how to responsibly use marijuana.
The $5.7 million "Good to Know" campaign begins hitting airwaves, newspapers a…

New York Times - SEATTLE — A year into the nation's experiment with legal, taxed marijuana sales, Washington and Colorado find themselves wrestling not with the federal interference many feared, but with competition from medi…

NBC News - Marijuana has never had a year like 2014.
The first aboveboard just-for-fun cannabis markets rose in Colorado and Washington. Voters in Oregon and Alaska passed ballot initiatives to create the same. And a co…

KMBC.com - Border states want to punish Colorado for legalizing pot
TOPEKA, Kan. —Kansas hasn't decided whether to join a lawsuit filed by other states against Colorado over its legalization of marijuana even though the two sta…

New York Times - The voters of Washington, D.C. have overwhelmingly approved the legalization of cannabis under a system known as “grow and give” – every resident will be allowed to grow cannabis at home and to give …

The Denver Post - Look around you. These are the good old days of marijuana in Colorado.
Things are about to change.
Prices for pot assuredly will fall, more pot will flood the market, and legislative cha…

Yahoo Health - A spate of recent studies on the efficacy of marijuana for various medical uses has confirmed what many people have known for thousands of years: that pot can help cure what ails you. “The biggest myth is that it&r…

The Denver Post - HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — Law enforcement officials in small Nebraska communities near the Colorado border are struggling to keep up with the amount of marijuana crossing the state line as drug arrests climb and county bu…